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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook is piloting Campus, a section specifically designed for college students to interact with peers at their school, at 30 universities around the US — A place for college students to talk about school — Facebook is getting back to its roots today with the launch of a new product called Campus …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Duo review: has thin, beautiful hardware, good battery life, and runs two apps at once well, but software is too buggy and the camera is bad — All the right ideas — but spoiled by buggy software and a bad camera — Microsoft's Surface Duo aspires to be something different from any other gadget you've used.
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| Raymond Wong / Input: |
Q&A with Panos Panay about the origins of Duo, why the software on it is not Windows-like, the absence of a built-in Surface Pen, and not chasing tech specs — Microsoft celebrates two major milestones this year: Windows 95 turned 25 a few weeks ago and the dual-screen Surface Duo marks …
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Windows Central and Android Central
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Portland, Oregon unanimously adopted ordinances banning the use of facial recognition tech by city agencies, including the police, and by private businesses — The Portland, Oregon City Council today unanimously voted to adopt two of the strongest bans of facial recognition technologies …
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OneZero, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, CNET, VICE, opb, The Hill, GeekWire, The Verge, The Next Web, Biometric Update, ACLU of Oregon, 9to5Mac, CNN, Fox News, Engadget, Android Headlines, MediaNama, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Silicon Florist, and GeekWire
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
A Bluetooth vulnerability in standards 4.0 through 5.0 lets attackers gain access to authenticated services; patch is not yet available — All devices using the Bluetooth standard 4.0 through 5.0 are vulnerable. Patches not immediately available. — The organizations behind … | Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Apple Music's 3.4.0 beta APK contains a reference to Apple One, likely the name of the rumored Apple subscription bundle — Back in June, our colleagues at 9to5Mac discovered in the iOS 13.5 beta that Apple was planning to bundle their services into a single subscription.
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Android Police, CNET, Macworld, The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Wccftech, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, and iClarified. Thanks:@technacity
| Marshall Cohen / CNN: |
Twitter expands election misinfo policies, prohibiting misleading claims about results, “inciting unlawful conduct” to prevent peaceful transfer of power, more — Washington (CNN Business)Twitter announced Thursday that it is expanding its policies against election-related misinformation …
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| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who left Twitch for an exclusive deal with Mixer last August, is back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site — He's got an exclusive, multiyear deal — Ninja's back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
TikTok reveals how it uses machine learning to maximize user engagement and says it's studying how to break filter bubbles that can boost misinfo and hoaxes — TikTok Wednesday revealed some of the elusive workings of the prized algorithm that keeps hundreds of millions of users worldwide hooked on the viral video app.
Tweets: @felixsalmon
| Reuters: |
Chainalysis: cryptocurrency transfers of under $10,000 to and from Africa jumped more than 55% in a year to reach $316M in June — LAGOS/LONDON (Reuters) - Four months ago, Abolaji Odunjo made a fundamental change to his business selling mobile phones in a bustling street market in Lagos: He started paying his suppliers in bitcoin.
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Tweets: @jp_koning, @reutersbiz, @gladstein, @dgbat_official, @christophera, @reuters, @doubleeph, and @eajene
| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Eric Ries' Silicon Valley-based Long-Term Stock Exchange opens for trading, nine years after “The Lean Startup” author first proposed it — A new stock exchange backed by Silicon Valley heavyweights is opening for business Wednesday. The Long-Term Stock Exchange can now trade …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Google unveils Android 11 Go Edition, which supports phones with 2GB of RAM, up from 1.5GB before, and says it can launch apps 20% faster than Android Go 10 — Now that Android 11 has dropped, Google has unveiled Android 11 Go Edition with the aim of speeding up entry-level smartphones.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google redesigns Google Finance and adds a “Watchlists” feature to help users group stocks and find relevant news, stats, and earnings details — Google Finance is getting a desktop and mobile redesign today that is focused on making it easier to “find data for stocks you're interested in … | Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma suggests that the way social media surfaces and amplifies the worst of humanity is our greatest existential threat today — The Social Dilemma argues that humanity's greatest existential threat is not climate change, but Facebook.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
SEC filing: former NSA director Keith Alexander is joining Amazon's board of directors — Alexander was the public face of US surveillance during the Snowden leaks — Gen. Keith Alexander is joining Amazon's board of directors, the company revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today.
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Orchard, which enables virtual home buying and selling, raises $69M Series C led by Revolution Growth, bringing its total raised to $138M — Orchard has raised $69 million in venture capital to continue the development of its machine learning technology that aims to make buying a home less complicated.
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TechCrunch and FinLedger
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Bose announces $279 QuietComfort Earbuds, with 11 levels of noise cancellation, and $179 Sports Earbuds, both available on September 29th, with preorders today — The QuietComfort Earbuds offer 11 levels of noise cancellation — Bose is ready to reenter the competitive true wireless earbuds market with two new products.
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TechCrunch, Windows Central, CNET, Android Central, Laptop Mag, TalkAndroid.com, iPhone Hacks, Tom's Guide, Engadget, and Android Headlines
Tweets: @chriswelch and @dcseifert
| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
Amazon hires Peter Marquez, an ex-director of space policy at WH's National Security Council in Bush and Obama administrations, as head of space policy at AWS — - Amazon recently hired Peter Marquez as its first-ever head of space policy at Amazon Web Services.
Tweets: @thesheetztweetz and @pinboard
| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Microsoft says users with the PC version of Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate will get access to EA Play for no extra cost starting “this holiday” season — One of the best deals in gaming is about to get even better. Today, Microsoft announced that multiple versions of Xbox Game Pass …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @xbox, @astaranx, @matpiscatella, @xboxp3, and @tomwarren
| Oliver Haslam / iMore: |
Epic says Apple is disabling Sign In with Apple for Fortnite on Sept. 11 and impacted users should update their account email address and password now — What you need to know — Epic has tweeted to warn users that Apple is going to block Sign in with Apple for Fortnite.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, Wccftech, 9to5Mac, and Mashable
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| Yi-Ling Liu / Wired: |
To evade government censorship, Chinese internet users have repurposed GitHub as a COVID-19 archive for news articles, medical journals, and personal accounts — As coronavirus news was increasingly trapped behind the Great Firewall, the programming platform became a refuge from censorship.
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Slashdot. Tweets: @longreads, @weileizeng1992, @wired, @yilingliu95, @yilingliu95, and @jjeilenberg
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
StackRox, which offers Kubernetes-native container security tools, raises $26.5M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total raised to ~$60M — Containers have become a ubiquitous cornerstone in how companies manage their data, a trend that has only accelerated in the last eight months …
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FinSMEs, Crunchbase News, SiliconANGLE, and Container Journal
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it has created an equity team to address bias in product development, updated hate speech policies, and is seeking to hire a new diversity lead — Instagram announced some changes it's making that are geared toward advancing equity within its workplace.
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Instagram, The Interface, The Verge, Input, and Social Media Today
Tweets: @mosseri and @instagramcomms
| Heather Landi / FierceHealthcare: |
Grand Rounds, which uses data and algorithms to match employees with healthcare providers, raises $175M led by The Carlyle Group at a valuation of $1.34B — Digital health companies continue to benefit from a surge in investor interest in virtual care. — Case in point: personal healthcare …
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